On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:25:51PM +0000, Lee Braiden wrote: > Don't want to nit-pick, but it seems worth clarifying, given the > confusion this often causes... > > > From: Matijs van Zuijlen <Matijs.van.Zuijlen@xs4all.nl> > > KDE and Gnome are no window managers. They are session managers. > > No, they're not. KDE is an integrated window manager & more -- what the > KDE team and others refer to as a Desktop Environment (hence kDE). Both > projects include session managers, but are not limited to that. GNOME > doesn't have a window manager as such, although there are lots of window > managers that are compatible with GNOME. GNOME is essentially a Desktop > Environment too, but I'm not sure they'd define the project that way. > Do want to nit-pick :-) Yes they are, from the point of view of Debians X architecture, which does not recognize the "Desktop Environment" concept. ~>apt-cache show gnome-session | grep Provides Provides: x-session-manager ~>apt-cache show kdebase | grep Provides Provides: x-session-manager See also the thread that started with this message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/debian-devel-200012/msg01821.html -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown Hans Ekbrand
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